"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
sparky1
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Confusing Opinions with Facts
by cofty inin a discussion about the best flavour of ice cream everybody's opinion is equally valid.. in a discussion about the shape of the earth or the origin of species everybody's opinion is equally irrelevant.
only objective facts and evidence matter.. confusing these two categories is a common feature of conversations in this forum.
people deserve respect, errors do not..
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Lett facial ticks from a stroke/aneurysm?
by azor ini was speaking to my mom the other day.
she stays in the group to retain a relationship with the rest of our in family.
she told me that she heard from one of my brothers that the reason lett makes all those weird facial gestures has something to do with a stroke or aneurysm when he was a younger man.
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Yeah, Lett probably had quite a few 'STROKES' when he was younger, when his parents weren't looking!
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JW Broadcasting reeks of desperation
by oldskool inagain, i'm a decade removed from the faith.
i'm catching up now, and can't believe what i'm seeing.. i get that jw leadership faced a dilemma.
there is no intellectual apparatus within the faith.
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"The JWs don't have the guts to proclaim the radical end times junk as much as they used to" - oldskool
You are on to something, oldskool. Can you imagine Nathan Knorr announcing Caleb and Sophia as the new 'mascot' of the Jehovah's Witness religion in his concluding comments at the end of an 'International Convention'?
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Does the governing body know what they are doing?
by Gefangene inwhat do you guys think?.
are they only some uber religious zealots or do they pursue hidden agendas beyond religiosity?.
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The Governing Body (tm) is composed of god intoxicated, religious zealots who have no hidden agenda, per se. They are self-deluded humans who think that they are carrying out the will of god on earth and feel that they have a 'commission' from god to 'govern' other human beings and thereby save their souls from eternal destruction. Remember that 'most of the evil committed in the world is by people that KNOW that they are right'.
"WE'RE ON A MISSION FROM GOD." - Elwood Blues
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Orginal sin: Tree of knowledge of good and evil
by dreddie intelling and knowing the truth.. it is your job to tell and know the truth and not be decived by the lies of satan.. believing this, you need the knowledge of what is good and evil.
because with the bible you believe you can know the truth.
where there is no knowledge of the truth and good and evil.
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dreddie, next time you get hit in the head, please seek medical attention immediately.
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A Comment by Lieu Made It Obvious That I Could Not Be A JW in 2016
by TMS inthe following comment by lieu on another topic shows me that i would be totally frustrated, actually exasperated, stifled and depressed in the modern form of jwdom: "therein lies the real problem billy, no one is paying any attention at regular meetings let alone conventions.
it's too boring, intentionally i think.
humans aren't hardwired to sit through hours of lecture with no interactions.
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"training hordes of worker drones serving and advertising the machine." - prologos
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I was helping a Mature Sister with her tablet for downloading the meeting and then noticed ...
by Quarterback inthis sweet older sister needed help and while trying to download the clm on her tablet, the history showed some porn pictures.
how does someone overlook that and carry on?.
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Go Granny, Go...............go, go, go!
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RC 2016 Leaks & Releases
by wifibandit inin an effort to reduce the number of posts, this year i will try to add links to this post.
now, on with the leaks & releases!
first up.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nzvwhflss4.
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Wow...............! I can't wait to be there. In the New System there are violins, bows to play them, manufactured 21st century style clothing, shoes, saddles for the horses and bridles, dimension lumber, manufactured nails, tools for building and gardening, printed blueprints for housing design, a table and dishes to eat from, a vegetarian menu and not a factory or electrical power line in sight! And yes, thank you Fisherman, if I am there I get to meet Joaquin Phoenix. I hope his brother River gets resurrected.
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Please sum up the last decade in JW history
by oldskool ini used to be a member of this site, but jumped off a good number of years ago (08?).
i don't have access to my old email, so i'm using a new account.. anyway, i was baptized jw in late 90's.
da'd mid 2000s.. when i left there were three meets a week plus field service.
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Two comments from the last few days really "sum up the last decade in JW history" for me:
"Poor organization, they don't know who they are or what they are selling anymore about the future." - Joyzabel
"Because that is what they worship now - the org, not the god. It's the golden calf they have created because their god has failed to show up." - Simon
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Please sum up the last decade in JW history
by oldskool ini used to be a member of this site, but jumped off a good number of years ago (08?).
i don't have access to my old email, so i'm using a new account.. anyway, i was baptized jw in late 90's.
da'd mid 2000s.. when i left there were three meets a week plus field service.
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"Stone the infidel - it's the pinky-purple one with the gold edges or nothing!!" - Simon
I vote for the baby shit green-brown songbook that I grew up with!
